Monday, July 2, 2012
Pink Dot. @ 12:29 AM
I know I haven't blogged properly in a while. I feel bad. Okay forget that. Anyway, I went for Pink Dot yesterday! If you don't know what Pink Dot is, it's an organization/event that happens every year, that fights for, as quoted, "The Freedom To Love". It's for the LGBT community and to show acceptance and love. I wanted to go last year, but I missed it, so I went this year instead, and I'll probably continue going in following years :)
If you want more information, just google. It was pretty awesome. This year was a night theme, and all of us needed pink lights, it was just lovely. I went with Teng, G, Min, Jing and Nizam! I was afraid it'll be awkward because even though they were my best friends, they didn't really know each other, but fuck, it was damn awesome, hah. I saw Tabs as well and met his best friend, Deirdre, she's so tall, or god, fucking jealous. The day was really really great. So, photos :) Some were from the Pink Dot website, and some from Teng, still waiting for some slow slow Simin! :)
Mei mei was sooooo annoying and cute oh god.
G's hair made me look like I had bangs! I was piggybacking her. Annoying brat :)
And finally, it was time to form the pink dot :D
Beautiful isn't it? I can't even express how glad I was to be there.
I even made a GIF out of the video PD uploaded :)
Pink Dot was just really awesome. Over 15 000 people went this year and it just makes me happy. Okay, so now, in all seriousness, it's time to tackle one of the 7 topics I've been wanting to talk about. LGBT.
If you've been reading my blog for a while now, you should already know that I'm nuts for supporting the rights of LGBT. I mean, what do I have to say? I have a few friends, and they are lesbians, gays, bisexuals, (no transgender yet though!) and to be honest, seeing them struggle to be themselves, face judgement, face hate from their family, their 'friends', and society, it sucks. They get hated, blamed, judged for being themselves. For being free. For doing what they want to do. For loving someone else. I'm glad that I can be one of the people rooting for them, and letting them know that they can do whatever the fuck they want to, to be happy.
If my little boy were to come home, and tell me he's in love with another boy, I want him to know that it's okay. I want him to not feel that it's wrong to love someone. I don't want people to discriminate him, to mock him, to hate him. I don't. I want him to be accepted as himself, I want him to be happy. If my little girl wants to be a boy, I'll tell her, alright, don't worry, I will always love you for who you are inside, instead of how you look outside. Isn't that how love is supposed to work?
We fall in love with people, not genders. People are beautiful. Because whatever we are on the outside, guess what? We are same on the inside. We all have blood flowing through out veins, we all have bones, feelings, and a heart to love. People often forget that. I once saw somewhere, that said, "There is only one race existent in this world, and that is the human race". We are the same, and we should be on the same side. I think people should just stop hating, or discriminating. If someone doesn't conform to your beliefs, fuck it. It's your beliefs, not theirs. Just leave everyone to be, and love people. Hate is a horrible, horrible thing to have, not only for others, but for yourself. No one should hate, and I feel sorry for people who hate more than the people that get hated.
At the end of the day, we are all people. We should just learn to accept one another and really just keep on loving. Love is really something I see society lacks, and I just want to see more happiness around. I might not be the best writer in the world, but I hope people see my point. I hope people can accept the LGBT community, but even if some simply cannot, I will not force them. I just want people to understand that it's not wrong to be ourselves. For me, I will continue supporting all movements of LGBT until I feel that fairness is sufficient to a point where my little help isn't needed anymore.
It's quite a short post, but it's really how I felt. So that's the end, I have classes early tomorrow. I enjoyed today with Tabs, and I should probably be heading off to bed now. I slept at 5.30am last night and woke up early today. See you guys next week!
